Grow a Bonfire

Prospectus

Toss logs, batteries, kegs and rockets on your bonfire and make it big enough to outlast the storm! Stoke your bonfire, hear it crackle, and hold on when the rain comes. Every log you burn pays money; spend it on a huge upgrade tree that branches out with every buy: more trees, zapping batteries, keg cannons, diving rockets and a shield against the rain. Beat six storms in a row and your fire burns right through the Storm King. Three worlds: a green valley, frozen peaks and islands in the sky. Free in your browser on desktop, tablet and mobile, no download and no login. A cozy idle clicker and incremental campfire game you can play anywhere.

How it plays

Desktop: hold the left mouse button on fuel, drag it into the fire and let go. Mobile: touch fuel, drag it into the fire and lift your finger. Fuel the fire before the bar runs out. Keep feeding in the storm. Spend money on the tree. Place new spawners so their fuel lands near the fire.

Opening an account with this game takes one press: Open the holding, above, and it loads on this page itself — nothing downloads and no form stands between you and the first decision. It is drawn for a flexible screen and takes its instructions from mouse, keyboard or touch, as the game prefers. It adjusts itself to upright and wide screens alike, so phone, tablet and desktop all present it properly. If a fullscreen control is offered, take it — a growing enterprise deserves the whole desk.

Analyst's notes for idle holdings

• Your real currency is the reset. Prestige and restart bonuses look like losing progress; in most idle games they are the fastest progress on offer, priced in patience.
• Automate the bottleneck, not the favourite. The upgrade that multiplies your slowest earner beats three that polish the one already sprinting.
• Check in at the rhythm the game suggests. Idle design is a metronome — short, regular visits beat one long stare, because every offline cap and bonus timer is set to that beat.

Grow a Bonfire — questions from the readership

What does it cost to open Grow a Bonfire?

Nothing, at any point. The holding is free from the first click to the last upgrade — no account to open, no download to wait for, no paywall filed anywhere in its pages. The advertising around this page is what pays the bookkeeping.

What kind of game is Grow a Bonfire, exactly?

We file it on the Idle shelf of the ledger. It is a browser game through and through — the prospectus above is the publisher's own summary of what the game asks of you and what it gives back.

Can I play Grow a Bonfire on a phone or tablet?

Yes — it runs in the browser on phones and tablets just as it does on a computer. It adjusts itself to upright and wide screens alike, so phone, tablet and desktop all present it properly.

Is there anything to download or install first?

Nothing at all. Grow a Bonfire is an HTML5 game: press the open button and it loads on this very page, and closing the tab leaves nothing behind on your device.

Closing entry

Finished the audit, or still mid-season? The full Idle shelf is one click away — Games that keep working while you watch — or don't. One hundred and seventy-five idle holdings where the numbers climb on their own and your job is deciding what they climb toward.